On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:46:26PM +0200, Florian Weps wrote: > > BTW, does anybody know how for example dbishell manages to be in main, > > and still have support specifically for oracle? > > dbishell's support for Oracle is entirely a case of "If you have it > installed, then dbishell supports it" -- you'll notice that it doesn't > depend on oracle in any way to work normally, it just happens to know about > oracle from the sense of its internal online help and completion driver > information. > > If this still violates policy then I will, of course, split the oracle bits > off into contrib -- but that seems pretty pointless since dbishell works > fine without oracle. Depends on what license the oracle bits come with, I guess. But I am not after petty policy violations. I want to compile the Oracle support in SQL Relay without having to download some non-free binary-only libraries. Florian
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